This photograph shows the Temple of the Sun at Palenque as it looked in 1889 when it was first photographed by Alfred Maudsley, an early English Mesoamerican archaeologist. The temple was built in ...

From there, you can take the quintessential photo of the Temple of the Sun, which is one of Palenque’s most aesthetically stunning structures. It’s also worth leaving time to follow some of ...

Palenque is an ancient Maya city located ... Temple of the Foliated Cross and the Temple of the Sun. Archaeologist Michael Coe writes in his book "The Maya" (eighth edition, Thames and Hudson ...

and the rulers of Palenque. As its name suggests, the Temple of the Sun was linked with the heavens, and its GIII god is associated with the Sun Jaguar deity, and war.

When I first laid eyes on Palenque’s Temple of Inscriptions ... like the jungle mist burning off the canopy with the rising sun. Wandering among the limestone ruins of temples and palaces ...

From seat 7A, I look down to see miles of dense rain forest blanketing the ground below me. I’m 10,000 feet above the Mexican state of Chiapas, coming in for a landing at Palenque, where an ...